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Director: Barry Levinson An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle. Director: Edward Zwick Edit Storyline Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is a successful sports agent. The biggest clients, the respect, a beautiful fiancée, he has it all. Until one night he questions his purpose. His place in the world, and finally comes to terms with what's wrong with his career and life. Recording all his thoughts in a mission statement Jerry feels he has a new lease on life. Unfortunately his opinions aren't met with enthusiasm from his superiors and after dishonorably being stripped of his high earning clients and elite status within the agency Jerry steps out into the sports business armed with only one volatile client (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and the only person with belief in his abilities (Renée Zellweger) with the impossible task of rebuilding what he once had. Along the way he faces the harsh truths which he'd ignored in the past and a host of hardships that he'd never faced before. Written by Hax_9 Everybody loved him... Everybody disappeared.

See more » Genres: Rated R for language and sexuality | See all certifications » Parents Guide: 13 December 1996 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Jerry Maguire: Spiel des Lebens See more » Filming Locations: $17,084,296 (USA) (13 December 1996) Gross: Did You Know? Trivia When Dorothy and Ray drop off Jerry at the airport and look at the family saying goodbye (a mother and child are seeing off the father), the three people shown are the stand-ins for Tom Cruise , Renée Zellweger and Jonathan Lipnicki who worked on the film. See more » Goofs When Jerry and Rod are talking in the locker room while Rod "air dries", Rod uses and puts away his deodorant twice.

See more » Quotes Agent Seeks Something Higher -- Possibly Cruise's Best Film 31 August 2007 | by classicalsteve (Oakland, CA) – See all my reviews At the 1997 Academy Awards, host Billy Crystal referred to the characters played by the five Best Actor nominees (of which Tom Cruise was one) as being "a burned guy, a mentally-challenged guy, a mentally-abused guy, a paralyzed guy, and an agent. And four out of the five are treatable." Of course Crystal was jokingly referring to the Agent as being beyond help. Among the figures of sports and entertainment, agents are often regarded as the necessary evil of the industry often with reputations as being the sleaziest of VIP's, just-above used car salesmen. Their antics which require a high-level of tough negotiations are sometimes seen as money-gouging and materialistic. In the film "Jerry Maguire", Tom Cruise decides to wear the shoes of a sports agent and walk around in them for just over two hours. "Who am I, and what am I doing?" Jerry Maguire asks when he realizes his sports agency, SMI, tries to cover up the darker aspects of professional sports.

His answer is inspiring, transcendent, and detrimental. He mistakenly writes down his inspired thoughts and submits them to his colleagues for suggesting the agency concentrate better on fewer clients. For his inspiration, he loses his place at his agency and many of his highest-paying clients to his rival Bob Sugar. Subsequently, he also loses his attractive but shallow fiancé. Maguire is forced to try and live his dream of being more caring and receptive towards the needs of his clients rather than just being there to get a slice of his athlete/clients' multi-million-dollar paychecks. In a particularly poignant sequence, he retains his client Frank "Cush" Cushman who is a leading contender in the NFL draft through a handshake with his father, played by Beau Bridges. However, on draft day, he learns through an unexpected phone call that his rival Bob Sugar, through deception, convinced Cushman to sign with him instead. Now, Maguire has retained only Tidwell, and he must create his new agency from the ground up with only a single client as his starting point. So the question asked of the movie is: Can a sports agent find a more meaningful, possibly spiritual, life and still acquire the high-paying clientèle?

And maybe even more to the point, can an agent make a difference beyond just being a high-powered money negotiator? "Jerry Maguire" is a thoroughly entertaining riches-to-rags-to-transcendence story of a fantasy sports agent trying to find a deeper purpose to an otherwise materialistic existence. The film works at almost all levels, particularly because of the dynamism of Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding Jr. in an Academy Award-winning performance, playing the only client willing to stay with Maguire. Part of the story is Maguire's journey from the purely material to a deeper and more-satisfying existence. Rod Tidwell (Gooding), wide receiver for the Cardinals, is a strange opposite to Cruise but has a similar problem. Tidwell is a devoted father and husband, emotionally involved with his family but does not quite give that same heart on the football field. The story becomes about both characters finding something deeper in their place in the world, Gooding giving what he gives to his family to his team, and Cruise giving to his clients and co-worker/lover Dorothy Boyd his love and attention. Renee Zellweger plays Dorothy Boyd in a passionate and sensitive performance that will definitely bring tears.

Zellweger's son becomes an important character and also an inspiration to Cruise to find the deeper and more sensitive part of himself. In the materialistic world of late 20th-century America, "Jerry Maguire" is a breath of fresh air. A rare story produced by the money-obsessed film studios about the dangers of losing oneself for the sake of self-promotion and monetary gain. An interesting statistic has emerged of late regarding a high number of American businessmen on their deathbeds who begin regretting the direction and purpose of their lives. "Jerry Maguire" offers an alternative, although probably few in his position would find the wisdom to change course. But since you can't take it with you, life is about what you leave behind. 30 of 37 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes See the Cast of 'Jerry Maguire' Then and Now See the Cast of 'Jerry Maguire' Then and Now September 3, 2013 @ 12:58 PM TriStar Pictures Released in 1996, Cameron Crowe's 'Jerry Maguire' starred Tom Cruise as the titular character -- a sports agent who, fed up with the lack of heart in his work, sends out an incendiary "mission statement" and heads out to start his own venture with the help of his new assistant (and love interest) Dorothy Boyd. It was the fifth consecutive film to gross more than $100 million for Tom Cruise, making him guaranteed box-office gold. We take a look back at Cruise and the rest of the cast from the film -- 17 years later -- to see what they're up to now. Tom Cruise, Jerry Maguire TriStar Pictures/Getty Images Then: Cameron Crowe actually wrote the part of Jerry Maguire for Tom Hanks , but the role went to the other Tom, Tom Cruise. Cruise played the disgruntled sports agent, who leaves his firm to start a more personal business.

Other actors considered for the role were Alec Baldwin, Johnny Depp, Bruce Willis and John Travolta. Now: Cruise recently appeared in the sci-fi thriller 'Oblivion' and can be seen next in 'Edge of Tomorrow.' He's also set to reprise the role of Ethan Hunt in a fifth 'Mission: Impossible' film. Cruise is a leading member of the Church of Scientology. Cuba Gooding Jr., Rod Tidwell TriStar Pictures/Getty Images Then: Jamie Foxx auditioned for the role of Rod Tidwell, Arizona Cardinals football player and the first -- and only -- client to follow Jerry to his new business. The part went to Cuba Gooding Jr. Now: Gooding Jr. recently appeared in 'Red Tails' and ' Lee Daniels' The Butler ,' and can be seen next in ' Machete Kills .' He also has a cameo as himself in Joseph Gordon-Levitt 's directorial debut, ' Don Jon .' Renee Zellweger, Dorothy Boyd TriStar Pictures/Getty Images Then: Cameron Diaz, Parker Posey, Mira Sorvino and Courtney Love were considered for the role of Jerry's love interest, single mother Dorothy Boyd.

The part was originally written for Winona Ryder to star opposite Tom Hanks. Jennifer Lopez was offered the part but turned it down, feeling it wasn't right for her, while Connie Britton of 'Friday Night Lights' fame was the second choice for the part and was famously -- and narrowly -- beaten by Zellweger. The role made her career. Now: Zellweger hasn't acted in a few years -- her last films were 'Case 39' and 'My Own Love Song,' but she's reportedly returning for a third 'Bridget Jones' film. Kelly Preston, Avery Bishop TriStar Pictures/Getty Images Then: Jennifer Connelly and Meg Ryan were offered the role of Avery, Jerry's tenacious girlfriend who dumped him when he left the firm. Alyssa Milano, Tori Spelling and Diane Lane all auditioned for the role, but it went to Kelly Preston. Her husband, John Travolta, was considered for the role of Jerry.

Now: Preston starred alongside her husband in the film 'Old Dogs' and had a cameo in Travolta's other recent film, 'From Paris with Love.' She appears next in 'Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father.' Like Cruise, Preston and Travolta are also Scientologists. Jerry O'Connell, Frank "Cush" Cushman TriStar Pictures/Getty Images Then: Jerry O'Connell, star of 'Standy by Me' and 'Calendar Girl,' played Frank "Cush" Cushman, an up-and-coming football player whom Jerry is desperate to sign. Now: O'Connell appeared in 'Scary Movie 5' and will next tackle the 'Veronica Mars' movie. He's made appearances on Adult Swim's 'NTSF: SD: SUV' and starred in Bryan Fuller's 'Mockingbird Lane' pilot, which was not picked up by NBC. He is married to actress and former model Rebecca Romijn. Jay Mohr, Bob Sugar TriStar Pictures/Getty Images Then: Jerry Maguire's story is based on real sports agent Leigh Steinberg (who makes a cameo in the film).

Steinberg's ex-partner David Dunn tried to steal away his colleague's clients, just like Bob Sugar does to Jerry in the film. Sugar was played by comedian and sports fan Jay Mohr. Now: Mohr made an appearance in this year's magician comedy ' The Incredible Burt Wonderstone .' He hosts his own sports radio show on Fox Sports Radio and has a podcast called Mohr Stories. Regina King, Marcee Tidwell TriStar Pictures/Getty Images Then: Janet Jackson read for the role of Marcee Tidwell, but the part went to her 'Poetic Justice' co-star Regina King. Marcee played Rod's determined wife, who clearly wore the pants in the family. Now: King's last film appearance was in 2010's 'Our Family Reunion.' She is the voice of Riley and Huey Freeman on the animated series 'The Boondocks,' and she had a lead role on the recently canceled drama series 'Southland.' Bonnie Hunt, Laurel Boyd TriStar Pictures/Getty Images Then: Bonnie Hunt played Dorothy's protective sister, Laurel Boyd. Hunt previously starred with Cruise in 'Rain Man,' but Cruise didn't remember Hunt being in that film.

When he showed up on set for 'Jerry Maguire' and Hunt told him they worked together before, Cruise thought she was joking. Smooth. Now: Hunt does a lot of voice work for Pixar and has lent her talents to 'Cars,' 'Cars 2,' the ' Toy Story ' films and ' Monsters University .' She has not made an appearance on film since the 2006 indie 'I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With.' Jonathan Lipnicki, Ray Boyd TriStar Pictures/Pacific Coast News Then: Jonathan Lipnicki made his acting debut in 'Jerry Maguire' at the age of 6, playing Ray, Dorothy's precocious son. Lipnicki showed up on set one day by announcing, "The human head weighs eight pounds." Crowe liked it so much that he wrote it into the script. Now: Lipnicki took a break from acting for a few years but recently appeared in 'For the Love of Money' and 'Tag.' He can be seen next in the film 'Bad Asses.' Jerry Maguire Movie Review & Film Summary (1996) | Roger Ebert Tweet There are a couple of moments in “Jerry Maguire” when you want to hug yourself with delight.

One comes when a young woman stands up in an office where a man has just been fired because of his ethics, and says, yes, she'll follow him out of the company. The other comes when she stands in her kitchen and tells her older sister that she really, truly, loves a man with her whole heart and soul. Advertisement Both of those moments involve the actress Renee Zellweger , whose lovability is one of the key elements in a movie that starts out looking cynical and quickly becomes a heart warmer. The man she follows, and loves, is Jerry Maguire ( Tom Cruise ), a high-powered pro sports agent who has so many clients he can't really care about any of them. He spends most of his time as a road warrior, one of those dogged joggers you see in airports, racking up the frequent flyer miles in pursuit of the excellence they read about in pin brained best-sellers. One night he has a panic attack in a lonely hotel room, and writes a memo titled “The Things We Think and Do Not Say: The Future of Our Business.” One of the things he thinks is that agents should be less concerned about money and more concerned about their clients.

That gets him a standing ovation in the office, but a few days later, when he's fired, he understands why agents do not say those things they think. Maguire stages a grandstand exit (his decision to take along the office goldfish plays awkwardly, however). But when he asks who's walking out with him, only Dorothy, an accountant he's met just once at the airport, stands up and says she believes in him. Dorothy is a widow with a cute little son (maybe just a mite too cute). She also has an outspoken older sister, played by Bonnie Hunt with her usual exuberance and ironic cheer (she's almost always a delight to watch). The sisters live together in a house where the living room seems to be semi permanently filled by a kvetching self-help group for divorced women, who spend all of their time talking about men. Someone should tell them that resentment is just a way of letting someone else use your mind rent-free. Advertisement Only one client doesn't dump Maguire when the agency boots him out. That's Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), a wide receiver for Arizona, who resents the crappy waterbed commercials Maguire puts him in, but sticks with him anyway.

Rod's wife Marcee ( Regina King ) is her husband's shrewdest defender and biggest fan, and their marriage is a true love story--in contrast to Maguire's failing engagement to the power-mad Avery Bishop ( Kelly Preston ). Avery is soon out of the picture, Dorothy begins to look less like an accountant and more like the most wonderful woman in the world, and under the influence of his ennobling new feelings, Jerry helps Rod learn to play from the heart and not just from the mind and the pocketbook. And somewhere along in there I began to feel that writer-director Cameron Crowe had bitten off more than he really needed to chew. The screenplay knows enough about sports agents to make that the subject of the whole film, and enough about romance, too, but there are so many subplots that “Jerry Maguire” seems too full: Less might have been more. Still, the film is often a delight, especially when Cruise and Zellweger are together on the screen. He plays Maguire with the earnestness of a man who wants to find greatness and happiness in an occupation where only success really counts. She plays a woman who believes in this guy she loves, and reminds us that true love is about idealism.

(Remember Franklin McCormick years ago on the all-night radio? “I love you because of who you are--and who I am when I am with you.”) The actual sports scenes are more predictable (right down to and including the big play that settles the season). But Cuba Gooding Jr., so strong in “Boyz N the Hood,” is fine here in a much different role. Finally the movie is about transformation: About two men who learn how to value something more important than money, and about two women who always knew. Advertisement JERRY MAGUIRE Soundtrack - List Of Songs JERRY MAGUIRE SOUNDTRACK Songs from the movie Jerry Maguire Soundtrack The Magic Bus – The Who Sitting Still Moving Still Staring Outlooking – His Name Is Alive Gettin’ In Tune – The Who Pocketful Of Rainbows – Elvis Presley World On A String – Neil Young 6.

We Meet Again (Theme From ‘Jerry Maguire’) – Nancy Wilson The Horses – Rickie Lee Jones Secret Garden – Bruce Springsteen Momma Miss America – Paul McCartney Sandy – Nancy Wilson Shelter From The Storm (Alternate Version) – Bob Dylan Requiem Again – Durutti Column Bring It on Home – Enuff Z-Nuff I’ll Be You – The Replacements Oh Well, Part 1 – Fleetwood Mac Bitch – The Rolling Stones Angel of the Morning – Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts She – Gram Parsons Pass the Peas – JB’S The Lonely Bull – Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Titicaca – Los Craneos For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) – AC/DC Haitian Fight Song – Charles Mingus What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye Trumpet Voluntary – Lyn Larsen Through the Hill – Andy Partridge & Harold Budd The Wrong Come Up – L.V. Combining drama, comedy, and romance, Jerry Maguire was a critical and commercial success built on an original script by writer/director Cameron Crowe and an Oscar-nominated performance by Tom Cruise. Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is an agent with a major sports management firm.

He’s enthusiastic, successful, a great negotiator and people like him. But it begins to dawn on Jerry that there’s something wrong with what he’s doing, and not long after a troubling encounter with the son of an injured athlete he represents, Jerry has a serious crisis of conscience. In the midst of a sleepless night, Jerry writes a memo calling on himself and his colleagues to think more about the long-term welfare of the clients they represent and less about immediate profits. While everyone around him applauds the sentiment, Jerry’s superiors think his ideas are bad for business; Jerry is fired, and, rather than standing in solidarity with him, his “friends” in the firm scramble like sharks to claim Jerry’s clients. At the end of his last day, the only people willing to join Jerry as he strikes out on his own are staff accountant Dorothy (Renee Zellweger), a single mother secretly in love with him, and Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), a football player whose pride and arrogance have gotten in the way of his reaching his potential.

Jerry Maguire earned an Academy Award for Cuba Gooding Jr.’s performance as Tidwell and provided a breakthrough role for Renee Zellweger; it also made “Show me the money!” an unavoidable catchphrase for several months. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi Director: Cameron Crowe JERRY MAGUIRE SOUNDTRACK MUSIC – LIST OF SONGS Jerry Maguire (5/8) Movie CLIP - Play With Heart (1996) HD - YouTube Jerry Maguire (5/8) Movie CLIP - Play With Heart (1996) HD Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. The interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Oct 6, 2012 Jerry Maguire movie clips: BUY THE MOVIE: Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: CLIP DESCRIPTION: Jerry (Tom Cruise) tries a tough love approach to inspire Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) to play better.

FILM DESCRIPTION: Combining drama, comedy, and romance, Jerry Maguire was a critical and commercial success built on an original script by writer/director Cameron Crowe and an Oscar-nominated performance by Tom Cruise. Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is an agent with a major sports management firm. He's enthusiastic, successful, a great negotiator and people like him. But it begins to dawn on Jerry that there's something wrong with what he's doing, and not long after a troubling encounter with the son of an injured athlete he represents, Jerry has a serious crisis of conscience. In the midst of a sleepless night, Jerry writes a memo calling on himself and his colleagues to think more about the long-term welfare of the clients they represent and less about immediate profits. While everyone around him applauds the sentiment, Jerry's superiors think his ideas are bad for business; Jerry is fired, and, rather than standing in solidarity with him, his "friends" in the firm scramble like sharks to claim Jerry's clients.

At the end of his last day, the only people willing to join Jerry as he strikes out on his own are staff accountant Dorothy (Renee Zellweger), a single mother secretly in love with him, and Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), a football player whose pride and arrogance have gotten in the way of his reaching his potential. Jerry Maguire earned an Academy Award for Cuba Gooding Jr.'s performance as Tidwell and provided a breakthrough role for Renee Zellweger; it also made "Show me the money!" an unavoidable catchphrase for several months. CREDITS: Cast: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr. Director: Cameron Crowe Producers: James L. Brooks, Cameron Crowe, Bridget Johnson, Laurence Mark, J. Michael Mendel, Bruce S. Pustin, Richard Sakai, John D. Schofield, Lisa Stewart Screenwriter: Cameron Crowe WHO ARE WE? The MOVIECLIPS channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films. Made by movie fans, for movie fans.

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MOVIE CHANNELS: ESPN.com - Page2 - Reel Life: 'Jerry Maguire' Reel Life: 'Jerry Maguire' By Jeff Merron Special to Page 2 It's a sports movie, it's a comedy, it's about business, it's about romance. "Jerry Maguire" did boffo box office when it came out in December 1996 because, unlike many sports films, it had broad appeal. And it had a rejuvenating mix of idealism and realism. Realism? Writer-director Cameron Crowe did do his research. But does "Jerry Maguire" depict the life of the big-time sports agent accurately? You decide. In Reel Life: Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is an agent who works for a large firm called Sports Management International. In Real Life: Maguire is a fictional character, although no fewer than three agents have claimed the character is based on them. The most famous of these is Leigh Steinberg, who did serve as a consultant, and Crowe did follow Steinberg around for a while to get a feel for the life. Drew Rosenhaus, another agent, also consulted on the film.

He told USA Today that he saw the film with his girlfriend. "The entire movie we were, like, 'O man, that's the business, and that's me.' "(A short video included in the DVD package features Rosenhaus on "How to Be a Sports Agent.") Finally, ESPN The Magazine recently reported that Crowe said Gary Wichard, another agent, was an inspiration for the Maguire character. In Reel Life: Maguire says he has 72 clients. In Real Life: Several agents said this was an impossible workload. "Big firms have specialists for marketing, contracts, finances," says one. "One person handling everything should have two or three clients." In Reel Life: Maguire is a sharp-dressed, well-groomed and handsome man. In Real Life: "I've never seen an agent who looked like Tom Cruise," said Scott Layden in 1997, when he was the Utah Jazz general manager. "It's usually more like Ratso Rizzo." If sports agents looked and dressed like Tom Cruise, they wouldn't be sports agents.

In Reel Life: Maguire writes a "mission statement," entitled "The Things We Think and Do Not Say." In the statement (the full text is included on the DVD), he emphasizes the love of the job, and says that the firm should cut back on the number of clients it serves, and provide more personal attention. In Real Life: The mission statement, by one account, was inspired by a memo former Disney Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg wrote in 1991. The 28-page screed was leaked to Variety and quickly became notorious. In the memo, Katzenberg advocated cutting costs and at the same time included statements such as, "Let's not be afraid to admit to others and to ourselves, up front and with passion, that we love what we do" and "The time has come to get back to our roots." Revisiting the memo a year later, Bernard Weinraub of the New York Times wrote, "Mr. Katzenberg may have stated the obvious but ... his comments stirred an outsize reaction." Kind of like what happened when Maguire wrote his memo.

In Reel Life: The mission statement says that SMI was founded in 1981, the same year Maguire joined the firm. It had four clients at first, including "The first American Frisbee champion, Chester Savage, who was actually born in Australia." In Real Life: According to the International Frisbee Hall of Fame, Victor Malafronte, of Berkeley, Calif., was the first World Frisbee Disc Champion, back in 1974. In Reel Life: In his mission statement, Maguire writes, "In the words of Martin Luther King, whose suit I suggest you all visit before they move it from its display in the Atlanta airport: 'A life is not worth living until you have something to die for.' " In Real Life: In a speech delivered in Detroit on June 23, 1963, King said, "If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." The MLK Jr. suit on display at Atlanta's Hartsfield airport was a stunner, wrote Colin Campbell in a 1992 Atlanta Journal-Constitution article: "I'd seen the Martin Luther King Jr.

exhibit before, so I didn't need to stop there (except to marvel, I don't know why, at King's three-button gray suit, nine-transistor portable radio and Timex watch)." In Reel Life: An SMI employee, Dorothy Boyd (Renée Zellweger), is on the same flight as Maguire. She eavesdrops on a conversation he's having -- he's sitting in first class, while she's in coach, but she hears the whole conversation clearly. In Real Life: According to the National Campaign for Hearing Health, airplane cabin noise ranges from 95 to 115 decibels. Boeing's lead sound engineer, on the other hand, told USA Today in 1999 that cabin noise, while the plane is cruising, is below 80 decibels. In any case, Maguire and his seatmate probably would have had enough trouble just hearing each other in normal conversational tones. For them to be heard by someone sitting in coach, they'd have to be talking very loudly. Renée Zellweger played an accountant inspired by Cruise's Maguire, though not in an Arthur Andersen kind of way.

In Reel Life: Boyd says to Maguire, about the mission statement, "I was inspired, and I'm an accountant." In Real Life: As we now know, after the creative bookkeeping at the heart of the Enron and Worldcom debacles, accountants can be quite inspired, though perhaps not in the most inspiring ways. In Reel Life: Bob Sugar (Jay Mohr) takes Maguire out to lunch a week after Maguire received a standing O for his mission statement ... and fires him. Maguire and Sugar return to the SMI office and both start calling clients immediately, competing for them in a kind of phone duel. After it's all over, Maguire has retained just one of his clients, Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.). In Real Life: Most athletes would feel more loyalty to their individual agent, not the firm, and most firms have a legally applicable policy that allows agents to keep clients who they had when they became firm members, Ralph Cindrich, a former IMG agent, told USA Today. The phone duel couldn't have happened. "He'd be able to get his personal items, then a guard would escort him out," Cindrich said.

In Reel Life: As Sugar fires Maguire, "Happy Birthday To You" is sung at another table. Cruise's Maguire manages to keep Cuba Gooding Jr.'s Rod Tidwell as a client. In Real Life: "Happy Birthday to You," by Mildred J. and Patty S. Hill, is a copyrighted work and is listed in the credits. The Hill sisters, both schoolteachers, wrote the song in 1893, as a greeting -- the original four lines of lyrics ("Good morning dear teacher, good morning to you ...") were entitled "Good Morning to All." In 1924, Robert H. Coleman published the song without permission, and added a second verse -- "Happy Birthday to You." This led to a lawsuit, which the Hills won, and they copyrighted the song in 1935. It now earns about $2 million a year in revenues. In Reel Life: One of Jerry's clients says, "I don't know what you do for your 4 percent." In Real Life: Most agents make between 2 and 4 percent of a contract (the cap is 4 percent for the NBA and NFL, 3 percent for MLB).

Agents make more -- usually 15 percent -- when they set up endorsement deals. In Reel Life: Marcee Tidwell (Rod's wife, played by Regina King) rides Jerry even harder than Rod throughout the film. In Real Life: Crowe, in his DVD commentary, says that while doing research for the film, one agent told him, "Fear the protective wife most of all." Wherever Gooding goes, somebody always yells "Show me the money." In Reel Life: Maguire convinces Tidwell to stay on as his client. Tidwell responds, in part, by saying, "Show me the money." In Real Life: Crowe said he got that line from former Arizona Cardinals safety Tim McDonald, who he had been following around while researching the movie. "He was actually at an owners' meeting to be paraded through the lobby to get his price up, because he was a free agent," Crowe told the Toronto Sun in 1996. "He said, 'I've got a wife and I've got kids and I've been beaten up for five years here in Phoenix and now I'm a free agent.

Show me the money." Says Gooding in his DVD commentary, "That line has haunted me ever since. I can be at a funeral, in the back you'll hear some (jerk) go, 'Show me the money.' " In Reel Life: Tidwell is approached by a kid at an airport, who asks, "Are you Hootie?" In Real Life: The reference is to the front man of "Hootie and the Blowfish." Gooding, in his DVD commentary, says this happened to him in real life shortly after the scene was shot -- a fan approached him in an airport, mistaking him for Hootie's lead singer, Darius Rucker. In the Spanish-language version, the line, "Are you Hootie?" is changed to "Are you Ice-T?" Crowe explains on the DVD that Hootie wasn't popular enough in Spain for the reference to register. In Reel Life: Jerry's girlfriend, Avery Bishop (Kelly Preston) tries to inspire him after he's fired.

She says, with great emphasis, "You are Jerry-Ma-f---ing-guire." Kelly "bleeping" Preston played Cruise's power-hungry girlfriend in "Jerry Maguire." In Real Life: The insertion of the adaptable expletive into the middle of a name, as a form of promotion, goes back at least to the 1940s. As Jim Bouton recounts in "Ball Four," when Ted Williams took batting practice, he would yell out, "My name is Ted f---ing Williams and I'm the greatest hitter in baseball." In Reel Life: Jerry, in his car, tries singing the lyrics to "Bitch," by the Rolling Stones, but he quickly has trouble with the lyrics and switches the station. In Real Life: It's a great tune, but it can be tough to sing along with if you have trouble decoding the lyrics. If you're tempted, here are the first two verses.

You can find the rest on the web: I'm feeling so tired, can't understand it Just had a fortnight's sleep I'm feeling so tired, Ow!, so distracted Ain't touched a thing all week I'm feeling drunk, juiced up and sloppy Ain't touched a drink all night Feeling hungry, can't see the reason Just had a horse meat pie In Reel Life: Tidwell says to Jerry, "F--- Reebok. All they do is ignore me." In Real Life: In the original script, the line was "F--- Nike," but Reebok agreed to pony up big bucks for the major product placement and promotion the film promised to provide -- despite the "F--- Reebok" line. The centerpiece of the deal: At the end of the film, Tidwell would finally land a deal with Reebok, and do a commercial that would be shown while the credits rolled. Tidwell's Reebok commercial ended up on the cutting room floor, though, and Reebok sued TriStar pictures for $10 million, claiming breach of contract. The suit was eventually settled out of court.

The Reebok spot, which cost $1.5 million to produce, is smart and funny. You can see it in included in the "Special Edition" DVD package. It's entitled "My First Commercial, by Rod Tidwell" and concludes with a message from Reebok: "We didn't notice you for four seasons. We're sorry." "Jerry Maguire" was a product placement dream machine, reported Entertainment Weekly in 1997. Among the 25-plus products featured were Coke, Gatorade, Toshiba and Marriott. TriStar asked $3 million for the right to put sunglasses on the bridge of Cruise's nose, but there were no takers. In Reel Life: When Jerry breaks up with Avery, she says, "I did the 23-hour Nose Route to the top of El Capitan in 18 hours 23 minutes. I can make this work." In Real Life: There are 70-plus routes up El Capitan, and the 3,000-foot "Nose Route" is the best known.

The average climber goes the distance in about four days, and in November 2001 Timmy O'Neill and Dean Potter made it in a record three hours and 24 minutes. The first ascent, in 1958, took 45 days. The most likely reference Avery was making would have been to Lynn Hill's record-setting 23-hour free climb of the Nose in 1994. Of course, that would have made Avery one of the best climbers in the world. Jonathan Lipnicki greatly underestimated the weight of Cruise's head. In Reel Life: Dorothy's son, Ray (Jonathan Lipnicki), says, "The human head weighs eight pounds." In Real Life: An average adult human head weighs about 12 pounds. In Reel Life: When Jerry sees Dorothy in a slinky black dress before they go out to dinner, he says, "That's more than a dress. That's an Audrey Hepburn movie." In Real Life: Aubrey Hepburn was an elegant, stylish actress known for her classiness on and off the screen. She won an Oscar, in 1953, for her first U.S.

movie role, in "Roman Holiday" and was also famed for her roles in "Funny Face," "Love in the Afternoon" and "My Fair Lady." She also played Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961), in which she looked cute and stunning and also happened to wear a slinky black dress. In Reel Life: One woman in the divorce group says, "I broke up with the cowboy. And now he's stalking me." Another woman asks, "What's the current definition of stalking?" and the first woman replies, "Coming over uninvited." In Real Life: The American Heritage Dictionary says the kind of stalking they're talking about is: "To follow or observe (a person) persistently, especially out of obsession or derangement." In Reel Life: The night before the draft, Frank Cushman (Jerry O'Connell), one of Maguire's two clients, who's slated to go No. 1 in the draft, is stolen by another agent. In Real Life: "The cutthroat part of the business is where a guy's trying to steal your clients," agent Dan Levine told the Kansas City Star.

"It's a reality -- a bad one, but a real one." But, while most agents will admit that client-stealing goes on, few will admit that they engage in the practice. In Reel Life: Matt Cushman, Cush's father (Beau Bridges), drinks "bloody beer," a mixture of beer and tomato juice. In Real Life: According to Happy-Hour.net, it's easy to make a bloody beer -- just mix four ounces of beer with four ounces of tomato juice, and enjoy. Another recipe for bloody beer calls for a full glass of beer with just a splash of tomato juice or Bloody Mary mix. In Reel Life: After Tidwell scores a touchdown, he does a backflip and a funky dance in the end zone. In Real Life: That's Gooding doing the backflip -- no stunt double for that one (a stunt double was used for the scene when Tidwell runs into a goalpost). Gooding, in his DVD commentary, says Paula Abdul helped him choreograph the dance. In Reel Life: When Tidwell is injured and on his back in the end zone, Maguire runs through the tunnel and onto the field.

Then he stands there calling Tidwell's wife on his cell phone. In Real Life: An agent wouldn't be allowed to run onto the field. REEL LIFE

Question: Who played Jerry in the film `Jerry McGuire`?
Answer: Tom Cruise